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East Slavic language with approx. 35 million speakers, primarily in the Ukraine, but also in other former Soviet republics, the eastern Balkans, and Canada. Ukrainian began to develop as a literary language at the end of the eighteenth century, before which the East Slavic recension of Old Church Slavic was used. The modern literary language has developed since 1918. Ukrainian is written in the Cyrillic alphabet with the additional characters ‹„’› (only in emigrant publications), ‹ï›. Ukrainian, Russian, and Belorussian have a high degree of mutual intelligibility.
References
Grammars
Bilodid, I. (ed.) 1969–1973. Sučasna ukraïns'ka literaturna mova, 5 vols. Kiev.
Danylenko, A. and S.Vakulenko. 1994. Ukrainian. Munich.
Humesky, A. 1980. Modern Ukrainian. Edmonton.
Medushevskyi, A.P. 1963. Ukrainian grammar. Kiev.
Shevelov, G.Y. 1963. The syntax of modern literary Ukrainian: the simple sentence. The Hague.
Stechischin, J.W.
1977. Ukrainian grammar, 6th edn. Winnipeg.
History and dialectology:
Atlas ukraïns'koï movy. 1984/8. 2 vols. Kiev.
Ilarion, Metropolitan of Winnipeg and All Canada. 1980. Istorija ukranïs'koï literaturnoï movy, 3rd edn. Winnipeg.
Istorija ukrains'koï movy. 1978–83. 5 vols. Kiev.
Shevelov, G.Y. 1979. A historical phonology of the Ukrainian language. Heidelberg.
Dictionary
Slovnyk ukraïns'koï movy. 1970–80. 11 vols. Kiev.
Etymological dictionary
Mel’nyčuk, O. 1982–. Etymolohičnyj slovnyk ukrains'koï movy v semy tomax. (Vols 1–3 by 1993.) Kiev.
Bibliography
Červinska, L.F. 1985. Pokažčvk: ukraïns ‘koï movy. Charkiv 1929–1930: Materialien zu einer ukrainistischen sprachwissenschaftlichen Bibliographie. Kiev.
Slavic
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